Fare register



Jan, 15 1924. 1,480,943

S. MADSEN FARE REGISTER Filed Feb. 25 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR BY j 5 9% ATTORNEY Jan. 15 1924. 1,480,943

- S. MADSEN FARE REGISTER Filed; Feb. 25 1922 ,2 Shuts-Shut 2 Patented Jan. 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES SCREW MADSEN, F ASTORIA,- NEW YORK.

FARE REGISTER.

Application filed February 25, 1922.

To all w ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, SoREN MADSEN, a subject of the King of Denmark, and a resident of Astoria, county of Queens, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare Registers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in fare registers and more particularly to the fare registers of the portable type.

The objects of this invention are to simplify the construction of such fare registers; to produce a fare register embodying a casing provided with a cylindrical coin chamber. having a transversely disposed shelf on which a coin dropping through said chamber is adapted to rest preparatory to registration, said casing also having a coin delivery opening adjacent to said shelf, also containing means movable transversely of the axis of the chamber across said shelf to move a coin edgewise through said delivery opening and also having means for registering said coin during such edgewise movement thereof to enable a plurality of coins of different diameter to be registered simultaneously and by one movement of a registration plunger; to provide a plurality of pockets o-r chambers in axial alignment which are adapted to select coins of different denomination and to cooperate with other mechanism to register in each of such pockets a coin of a predetermined denomination, so that by a single movement or operation of the plunger a plurality of coins of varying diameters will be caused to register by suitable registering devices, thus assisting in the speed with which devices of this kind may be operated.

Another object of my invention is to pro vide a simple, eflicient and yet inexpensive theft-preventative device.

Another object of my invention is to provide means for ringing a hell or the like simultaneously with the registration of a coin.

Another object of my invention is to produce a small compact device which may be readily and easily handled and carried about.

Another object is to provide a construction which may be readily cast in halves and which when connected together will form effective and smooth walled chambers for the reception, selection, registration and deposit of the coins registered.

Serial No. 539,144.

l'Vith these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the combination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to coact and cooperate with each other in the performance of the functions and the accomplishment of the results herein contemplated, and comprises in one of its adaptations the species or preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 1-- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of one of the casted halves of the device;

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the opposite casted half;

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6, showing a nickel in the position to be registered;

Fig. 8 is a similar section showing the plunger engaging said coin in the operation gfl registering the same and ringing the Fig. 9 is a section on the line 9-9 of Fig. 6; and

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of my theftpreventative plate removed from the fare registering device.

Referring now to these drawings, 1 indicates a casing which is split longitudinally on a line midway between the opposite sides of said device and extending from the rear to the front thereof in two complementary halves so as to enable a ready casting of such complementary halves, and also to provide a ready and quick assembly of the other parts in relation thereto. These halves when connected together will form a casing of compact construction. As illustrated, the casing is provided with a chute portion 2, a theft-preventative cham her 3, a nickel or large coin pocket 4 and the small coin or dime pocket 5, the last two pockets being in substantial axial alignment so that when a series of coins are passed through the chute 2 and theft-preventative housing 3, the coins of both denominations will fall through the pocket or chamber 4 and either directly or after the registration, as hereinafter set forth,

of the larger coins, such as niclrels, the dimes or smaller coins will be deposited in the pocket of smaller diameter 5.

The opposite halves of the casing are provided, as illustrated, with apertures which communicate with opposite sides of the coin chambers 4i and 5 respectively, and I prefer ably mount on the outside of the casing at one side a bell B and cause a plurality of clappers B to extend through the casing and into the path of registration of the coin as hereinafter explained, and the opposite side is provided with a counter preferably having aseries of arms which extend successively into such path of the coin.

In the preferred embodiment illustrated, l mount on the casing half 1 two counters G and 7, each of which is provided with spin dles 67 and have star wheels 8 and f) with radial arms extending within the casing, while at the opposite side of the casing I mount a bell of any well known construction and provide clappers having toes or arms 10 and 11 respectively which extend through the opening in the casing and into the direct path of the coin during the operation of the plunger, as hereinafter ex plained. The theft preventative housing 3 is preferably provided with a flat plate 3" having a slot 3 which is preferably out of alignment with the terminus 2. so that a coin in passing in'will, when the plate 3 is in its lowermost position shown in 6, readily slide downwardly and through the slot 3 but when the casing is inverted in an attempt to get the coin out, the plate 3 will fall upwardly into the position shown in dotted lines in said Fig. (3 and the slot 8 in said plate 3 will be closed by the upper wall 1 of the casing, so that it will be impossible, to shake a coin out of the same.

If anycoin or coins have been deposited and-passes the plate 3, if it is a coin of larger diameter, it will fall upon the shelf 12, and if it is a coin or coins of smaller diameter it will fall downwardly and rest upon the shelf 13. When a coin or coins are so disposed on the shelves 12 and 13, the same may he slid by means of theplunger la laterally into the passages 15 and 16 respectively and in the passage of each of such coins along these shelves the coins will directly contact with and cause the operation or movement of one or both of the radial arms of the counters and each coin registered simultaneously will operate on the inwardly extending arms of the bell strikers. The plunger 14 has two inwardly extending sliding arms 1 and l-i which slide along shelves 14 and let. This plunger let is normally held in its outermost position by means of a spiral expansion spring 17 which is connected at one end to the casing at 17 and has its opposite end 17 connected with an arm 14 of the sliding plunger 14.

It will be apparent that if one or a series of coins of smaller diameter are inserted after the insertion of a coin of larger diameter but before operation of the plunger, the coin or coins of smaller diameter or even coins of the same diameter will remain superimposed until the coins of the larger diameter have successively and singly been passed over the shelf 12 and into the passage 15, whereupon the coins of smaller diameter vill fall down on the shelf 13 and will to similarly successively and singly moved over the shelf into the passage 16.

0 will also be obvious that the device will be capable, by a single operation of the plunger lei, of registering two coins of dis similar diameter at the same time, although but one coin of a similar diameter may be registered at one time. After the coins have passed through the passages 15 and 16 they will fall downwardly into the compartment 20 and may be recovered through the opening 18 which, as shown, is formed at one side of the bottom of the casing, and which is also preferably provided with a finger ring 19.

la ing described my invention, I claim I 1. A fare register embodying, in combination, a casing provided with a cylindrical coin chamber having a transversely disposed shelf on which a coin dropping through said chamber is adapted torest preparatory to registration, said casing also having a coin delivery opening adjacent to said shelf, means movable transversely of the axis of the chamber across said shelf to move a coin edgewise through said delivery opening and means for registering said coin during such edgewise movement thereof.

2. A fare register embodying, in combina-' tioii a casing provided with a plurality of cylindrical coin chambers of dissimilar diameter disposed in substantial axial alignment and communicating with each other and means movable within such chambers for counting coins deposited in one of such coin chambers.

3. A fare register embodying, in combination. a. casing provided with a plurality of cylindrical coin chambers of dissimilar diameter in substantial axial alignment and I communicating with each other, such chambers having shelves on which deposited coins of difierent diameter come to rest preparatory to counting, and said casing also hava coin delivery opening adjacent to each shelf, means movable transversely of the axis of such chambers for moving one coin of each diameter edgewise and means for counting coins deposited within such chambers during such edgewise movement thereof.

4:. ii fare register embodying, in combi nation, a casing provided with a plurality of cylindrical coin chambers of dissimilar diameter disposed in substantial axial alignment and communicating with each other, each of such chambers having shelves on which deposited coins of different diameter are adapted to be superimposed preparatory to counting, said casing also having a coin delivery openin adjacent to each shelf, a laterally} movab e plunger having a part movable over each shelf and adapted to move one coin of each diameter edgewise, counting means arranged to count said coins during such edgewise movement thereof, said laterally-movable plungers being operatively connected and movable together to simultaneously move and cause the counting of a plurality of coins of dissimilar diameter.

IL fare register embodying, in combi nation, a casing provided with a plurality of cylindrical coin chambers of dissimilar diameter disposed in substantial axial alignment and communicating with each other, such chambers havin shelves on which deposited coins of different diameter come to rest preparatory to counting, said casing also having a coin delivery opening adjacentto each shelf, a laterally movable plunger member having a part movable over each shelf to engage and move one coin of each diameter edgewise, counting means arranged to count said coins during such edgewise movement thereof, said laterally movable plunger members being operatively connected and movable together to simultane ously move and cause the counting of a plurality of coins of dissimilar diameter and a spring for retaining such plunger-members in one extreme position.

6. A fare register embodying, in combination, a casing provided with a plurality of cylindrical coin chambers of dissimilar diameter disposed in substantial axial alignment and communicating with each other, such chambers having shelves on which deposited coins of different diameter come to rest preparatory to counting, said casing also having a coin delivery opening adjacent to each shelf, a laterally movable plunger member having a part movable over each shelf to engage and move one coin of each diameter edgewise, counting means arranged to count said coins during such edgewise movement thereof, said laterally-movable plunge-r members being operatively connected to a finger-piece and movable together to simultaneously move and cause the counting of a plurality of coins of dissimilar diameter, a spring for retaining such plunger members in one extreme position, each coin chamber also being provided with bell clappers having an arm extending into the path of the coin at the side opposite to the radial arms of the counter and movable by the coin simultaneously with the movement of the counter.

7. A fare register embodying, in combination, coin registering means and a fraud preventative device comprising a coin chute, a housing beneath said coin chute and having a communicating slot therebetween, a flat vertically movable plate seated in said housing and having a slot extending parallel to the said chute slot but out of alignment therewith.

In witness whereof, I have signed my name to the foregoing specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SOREN MADSEN.

Witnesses:

A. L. VAN Nnss, HELEN V. WHIDDEN. 

